Mischievous part deux!

OK guys.. I was in New York for my birthday and saw that the New Year’s Eve ball was being taken down and it appeared at this party on Sunday.  Is there some mischievous behavior going on here?

Plus we learn about Mischief Night in this lesson!

Here is video of the party I’m talking about… check it out and show some comment love over there! :-)

Oh.. and please rate, comment and fave over at YouTube to help this video. :-)

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476 Responses to Mischievous part deux!

  1. samuel3d says:

    Hi, how do I delete my account?

    Thanks Samuel. :cry:

  2. seogirl says:

    Hey your Too Hot for words great video babe,hope your over the jacket now, this is just a big up and big hug from SEO Girl have a blast looking forward to seeing more of your videos annd being enlightened. Thanks again

  3. okay4now says:

    Hwk: No way, sorry, can’t list the most…but once stole a car and placed it up-side down (I had help) in the center of the high school.

  4. lars2 says:

    I remember last New Years they said that it would be the last year the Times Square Ball would ever be used. Anyone else remember that? So perhaps that is why last years Ball is at the tequila party ! It’s History ! lol

    As it’s a new decade too, something totally new is likely in order, or may I dare to say in New Order (as in New World Order !).

    And another thing ! (not to shout like an angry spouse at their better half, but ! )
    Guy Fawkes was a patsy [patsy], which means he was the ‘fall guy’ for the plot, which actually was a ‘false flag operation’, in that the ‘gunpowder’ wasn’t actually gunpowder (in this moment I forget what Webster G. Tarpley said it was), and two of the supposed ‘plotters’ were actually ‘undercover agents’ for the Prime Minister who was actually the one who orchestrated the entire affair in order to curry favor with the King by supposedly saving him from the plot ! (somewhat convoluted, but that’s the way ‘Power’ operates !)

  5. lars2 says:

    Now, if we could just figure out how the human brain logs, tags, and retreives things !

  6. Hey, wait a minute! She said, “If you see anyone wearing it, I’ll send you a reward.” You are not actually required to tell M where you saw it or who was wearing it. (M needs to vet her offers with her famous lawyer buddy?)

    Whats with hotforwords.org?

    • In effect, WhyPark has created a second, free Website for M. However, if they sell the URL, it will have to be watched to see if they are doing good or evil with it. As Hotforwords is a registered trademark, it can be petitioned to kill the URL if desired.

    • leoNard says:

      The foot soldiers were armed with capital…crazy! My computer restarted, from an update and it restored herself here. :???: The [universe] spoke of strings and things and is the phrase ["HAY-WIRE"] verbalized? :idea: nixon now and johnson present :lol: Cool for edit: haywire and german rigged in regard to fixing computers……… :-) with this “push of the button”, the mickey mouse is K I N G Quote”C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot – C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.” – Bjarne Stroustrup

  7. fglrx says:

    I did a lot of mischievous tricks when I was a teenager, always in the way that nobody knew who did it. For example in school, I blew up a toilet bowl with a bundle of bangers (I constructed a little “time bomb”, it exploded at night when nobody was there), caused a short-circuit in the main switchgear in the building near before an important school ceremony, poured a fake blood in a corridor or I substituted messages on a bulletin board with a spoof information. I performed everything “behind the scene” and I was never suspected about that jokes, many other people was. I was even always receiving very good conduct grades at the end of semesters. :mrgreen:

    I think the most mischievous thing happened when I tried to protest against the Serbian invasion in Kosovo (that was about 1998, so I might be 15 y.o.). Someday when I took a crap in the morning, I didn’t simply flush the water, but I put the sh*t into a parcel that I prepared in the way that if somebody opened it, the excrements leaked out. Then I sent it to the address of the embassy of Yugoslavia. It was in December, the time before Christmas, I’d rather not think what would’ve happened if it had leaked in the mailbox and some people received such scented postcards for Christmas. :oops:

  8. teilo says:

    Marina,

    Could you please find out why it is that we can say something is [out of whack], but we can never say that something is “in whack”? What does whack mean and how come it is only out and never in?

    Regards,
    Teilo

    (pronounced tie-low)

  9. Hello I have just I have a pretty good word request. I think you should look up the word Improv! :razz: It is almost like a russki word :grin:

  10. pedanticKarl says:

    Thank you Marina for the sub & friend,
    which made Rijk very happy which
    makes me happy. fglrx should be
    here any moment now, a happy camper. :-)
    If you guys need help with homework,
    just hit me up.

    • Rijk says:

      Yes me happy,

      hmm, you eighter have a stalker fan, ore somebody loved that jacket a lot more than you did. haven’t seen it here.
      lol, try to blow up the king in 1605 and show a picture of dynamite.
      ok homework what should i take, i’m gonna go for the time i was about 9 we were on holiday. my parents were talking to the neighbors and it took ages, so i started pushing the car out of the garage, but after the garage it was all down hill, and the car wasn’t on the handbrake.
      so i pushed it and out came the car, with me hanging on the front bumper trying to slow it down. my mom and dad stopped the car and than my dad put hi foot behind the rear wheel an mom put on the handbrake. i didn’t get punished, the metal bumper had left a big mark in my hands and they could see it had effected me, so the only thing i got to hear was don’t do it again.
      hmm the ball…., they rolled it.

  11. Evan Owen says:

    Life becons…but I do so love just watching you adoringly, Marina.

    До свиданя!

  12. Evan Owen says:

    [stethoscope]

    This word has a fun history involving a large-breasted Frenchwoman. :grin:

  13. leoNard says:

    Good Day! – “It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.” – George Bernard Shaw__ My request—[YULE TIDE and [branch] :lol: :razz: :lol:

  14. pandion says:

    The most mischievous thing I ever did was convince a friend he had a kid.

  15. kolia says:

    I always hate fuckers ,like guy from your story, particularry back home, and ALWAYS beat the shit ouy of THEM.

  16. kolia says:

    So, it’s ok to beat somebody? is fhat heroism, would u like, that somebody beat up you? will u enjoy it?

  17. Che Mero says:

    You hang out with a rough crowd there Marina.

  18. James says:

    Where is big ben at 2:12?

  19. James says:

    LOL I HAVE IT!! The most mischievous thing I have done is find loads of celebs addresses out.

  20. James says:

    This myspace thing I found is huge.. Thank fuck I am not a stalker because I could pretty much find anyones address

  21. Evan Owen says:

    ***Silly Time!****

    [Fred]

    as in: “Barack Obama wins the Nobel Fredspriset :???:

    (Was the prize named after al-Fred Nobel?) :roll:

    In 1066 both the Vikings and the French invaded England. If the Vikings had won, would we be singing “Fred on earth, goodwill to men”? :shock:

    Fred be with you!

    • neuroway says:

      Oh gee no, Evan. If the Vikings had won, you would probably be plundering most of the planet’s natural resources today, while religiously singing some nordic hip-hop business anthem.

      • muggins says:

        That’s grossly unfair to the Vikings. It assumes that because the Vikings plundered small towns and monastaries for loot and slaves, that they would plunder the environment. I’m not saying that the Vikings wouldn’t have eventually become plunderers of the environment, but nothing about them suggests that they would have done so, more than any other group.

        • neuroway says:

          Quid? Grossly unfair, eh?

          Blimey! You may be right, muggins. The Vikings destroyers of the environment? What a crazy idea. When you’re looking for gold and slaves, there’s nothing to suggest that you’ll eventually become a plunderer of the environment, right? You think well, muggins. I can’t believe I allowed myself to fall for such a bloody chiasmatic stereotype. The Vikings destroying the environment, what a spoofy figure of style… Where do I get these freaky ideas from, I ask myself and I don’t know.

          Well, it’s friday evening. What have we got here. A new moon that we can’t see, a big city that we can see, bloody hell, this mixes just like a 12 pack of Red Bull and a bottle of booze! Gotta go! Hasta la vista bambinos! I’ll be back!!

          • muggins says:

            Forgive me, too, for thinking that you would accuse my ancestors, who only innocently raped and pillaged…(and murdered indiscriminately during invasions here and there), of being certain destroyers of the environment if only they had more longevity in the course of history. Say there….if the Vikings faded away, then who was it, who is that group of people, whom we can blame for plundering of our environment? Yessir, plundering and fouling the land, sky and waters from Vladivostok to the Mono Lake?. Because surely it’s one group of people, and the rest of us are innocent.

      • Evan Owen says:

        @neuroway 116.1
        And this differs how, exactly, from the way things are now? :razz:

        • neuroway says:

          Who knows? You paint your life the way you like it, untill you go too far and cross the borders of someone else’s life. Then, it’s usually the strongest colour who becomes dominant. But domination is quite a fragile and short lived hubris, and it fades away just like the rotting fruit it is.

  22. James says:

    Marina, I dont know what this is.. But I saw 400 comments and knew something must be going on.. My last comment went on super fast…

    I don’t think it is neccessary to intergrate twitter into your website at all. What happens in a few years time when everyone stop tweeting?? Keep it real girl!

    • HotForWords says:

      I was trying to integrate a system where people could comment by logging in with their Twitter account, or their Facebook, etc. I wanted a way that I could award top commenters. I wanted my Tweets and Facebook posts to appear on my site as regular comments (or posts) and to allow people to talk to eachother whether they are here or on other networks.

      I thought I had found such a system…. but it wasn’t ready for prime time yet.

    • Captain Jack says:

      I don’t think twitter will go away but will be replaced by some thing much better. Twitter is really so old school now. Barry Diller and John Malone (two big wigs in the pre-internet world) proclaimed that twitter would never make very much money. I totally agree with that statement. I feel that they don’t want to make any money from it. Just enough to keep the business running. In a way I highly respect that. You know, how much is enough money? Or the owners are just delusional.

      I’m also thinking twitter is mostly used for older people. Not many teens are on it by comparison.

  23. James says:

    What is this intesnedebate thing about? I have never heard of it? Is it on here now?

    • Captain Jack says:

      It’s an advanced comment plugin. Marina removed it for it was causing some issues. Also everyone would have to recreate their accounts. She is going to wait until they allow importing of existing students.

      http://www.intensedebate.com/

      • Rijk says:

        Hey cj, it happened again. got a reply of D (comment 162801) but it’s not in the recent comments nor is it on the site.

        had this yesterday as well with comment 162520.
        got the one form D at 10.26 and the same one at 12.43 and then it was on the site and showed up in the recent comments, but not as the last posted, but like it had been posted at 10.26

        hope the comment-numbers help to solve / trace it

        • Captain Jack says:

          Thanks for the feed back. Yes, the comment numbers do help. :smile:

          The reason is the size of her comments. You guys both are making very long comment with lots of links. The system is programmed to kick those out. I think the system believes those comments are related to spamming or troll activity. Also large post like this slow down the load times for the other students trying to catch up on the lessons. Also people google older pages for research and we don’t want them to get to burden having to pour over comments not related to the post.

          Your comments would be better suited for the forums. I would appreciate it if you take your discussions to the forums. There are very little restrictions there and you can do much more, i.e. post photos. The forums were create at the request of the student body to have a place to communicate without cluttering up the lessons. :smile:

          If you need any help with using the forums please let me know.

          • Rijk says:

            Hmm, i don’t really like the forum. it has a different feel than the site.
            besides we are in an old word, and most activity is done in the new words / video’s and we aren’t cluttering up that.

        • Captain Jack says:

          I understand you don’t like the feel of the forums. I don’t either, but that’s what we have to work with right now. I am looking into some new forum software that Marina might like. It will make the forums very enjoyable to use.

          Its and old word to you but we get many views on that page because of the content. Yes comment activity is on the new words, but your not aware of the view counts we get on older pages. There are many more viewer than commentators. You would be shocked at the numbers. Just like any other website ie popular news sites. There are just a few comments but over 100, 000 viewers reading the pages.

          You guys need to make your comments shorter or move them to the forums. Your choice. Don’t get me wrong. We really want your comments. It’s just you need to break them up or move them.

          • Rijk says:

            i understand, it’s the size and or the amount of links.

            just curious, is sexual word getting more hits now?

          • I also feel that the forum is just “not right.” Or at least less “not right” than the blogs. Perhaps it is simply because it is removed from the blogs, which for the current lesson is one place to look, whereas the forums are scattered all about many topics in four categories.* In order for the forum to be as efficient to the readers as the blogs are, a great many changes would be needed to allow us to re-organize the forum material, weed out outdated material, update old material needing it, edit standing (permanantly-important) messages at any time and so forth. I have the feeling that M is not interested in this and that it will never get done. So, the forum stays the way it is, it will be uninviting, thus sending people (or trying to) to the forum is futile. You can try to herd cats, but cats will still be cats; if a more cat-friendly place is provided, they will go there on their own.

            If I had my druthers, I would provide a way for a user to sort the comments in a blog. For example, if a user wishes to read the comments that are directly related to the lesson, there should be a way to filter them that way. Perhaps a related/unrelated selection could allow authors (or anyone? a TA?) to tag comments that users could later use to search by. Or the comments could be rated: 1 = Directly related to the philology, 2 = The lesson’s homework, or 3 = Something else. That would solve the problem of a blog being too long for those looking at old lessons. As we can’t even get the comment numbering to be visible as it once was, I’m not holding my breath.

            Ifthere are limits on msg size or contents, these should be clearly expressed to the users. I hate “mystery rules;” it leads to unnecessary hacking by the curious. And I hope everyone is curious.

            Finally, if this msg is too full of crap unrelated material for later lesson readers, they should go to the forum and complain about it. Whatever they do, they should not complain about it here, because that would just add to the unrelated material in the blog, and, furthermore, posting in the forum has the added benefit of me not having to see it. :lol:

            ———
            *How is one to keep up with things without reading every single blasted forum topic? One can’t, so I don’t bother. This is further aggravated by the organization of categories, which could be greatly improved (Sorry, Marina). (I commented on that when it first started, but, just as an exercise, try to go back and find that comment. It’s very discouraging.) And it is further, further aggravated by the latest msg being buryied on the last page of the topic, requiring the user to, instead of merely clicking the topic to se what is new, navigate to the end of it. (Some people like it that way, but am not one of them. Try it at GasBuddy to see how they do it. I’ve been there for 2 years and it seems perfectly natural.)

        • aLx says:

          hi, rijk (and jack).

          why don’t you like the forum?

          what ever forum we got on here, it will always have “a different feel” than the lessons because it’s the forum and not the lessons.

          here’s a quote:

          It’s good for you! It’s like vegetables when you were a kid.. you hated them but they were good for you!

          haha.:P

  24. Why is [mistletoe] is one of christmas tradition?

  25. I see that you did the word beer but was wondering if you can look where [brewski] came from or how it became slang for beer. My last name happens to be pronounced brewski and was surprised to find out it was slang for beer while watching SNL. The Coneheads did a skit where they were handing out fried eggs and 6 packs of brewskis.

    A new “Hot for words” fan :grin:

  26. leoNard says:

    [PROSTiTUTION]…detaling de-tales :lol:prostitution ring

    • muggins says:

      God forbid somebody should have a good time. What if they used robots instead of women? Actually, there’s a law against everything. If the authorities don’t like you for any reason, they can scrape up a law and use it on you.

    • beevee14 says:

      How expensive would that be? You would need at least eight girls to make a complete ring. Maybe nine. Don’t know the hourly rate but you could get into some real money…. ;-)

  27. HotForWords says:

    OK.. we are back to normal comments. I like where IntenseDebate is going.. it will be a great system shortly.. they are owned by WordPress so they will work well with WordPress… I just want to wait until they are able to import you guys without you having to register again.

  28. muggins says:

    The nesting experiment seem rather short lived.

  29. Hs4Mm says:

    Email notifications stopped; attempting to restart them.

    • pedanticKarl says:

      Hey aLx, getting back to gender versus sex.
      I get the definition difference, but what do you make of the politically correct labeling of objects that had been labeled using the sex references male and female?

      For example, we used to say take the male end and stick it into the female end. All kinds of people were offended by that and then they started using terms like "gender changer" or "gender bender" and I think its now called plug and outlet or some such thing. Can't keep up with all of the politically correct terminology.

      Then, on hard drives and other hardware, they did away with master-slave configuration and I think it is now called primary and secondary and maybe some other terminology.

      • kunstscheiss says:

        yeah, that pc shit is weird. over there it's still worse, i think.
        some time ago, they started to address males and females individually over here, like … they wouldn't say "studenten" anymore but "studentinnen und studenten". it gets worse. now they're saying "studierende", maybe because they get tired of using the longer phrase. but, "studierende" is a derivative of the present participle, "studierend". that doesn't really make sense. there can't be "schlafende studierende" because you can't be studying and sleeping at the same time. but of course it's possible to have "schlafende studenten", sleeping students.

        hm. isn't there "primary master" and "primary slave" now? i thought so. no? oO

      • Capman911 says:

        we still use the sex issue in the FD. The male end of the fire hose is the end with the threads on the outside, where the female is just the opposite. All of our appliances or hose connectors are sexed the same way like a double female or a double male. Just like the fire department connections on the side of a building are a double female connectors. The female connector on the hose has a higbee cut. It is a notch cut out of one of the tightening lugs to let you know where the threads inside of the female coupling begin so you can line up the male and female ends in the dark or inside of a smokey building. Fire departments are slow to change when it comes to sexes. lol

  30. Chemikal says:

    I don't really like that replies are nested.
    I know it increases performance, but that just takes away from the experience.

  31. Chemikal says:

    The reply system remembers the first line of the previous reply, but only the first line.

  32. Chemikal says:

    I made an account on intesedebate, I see now how this is an advantage.
    I think you can obtain the same results if you have an openID account as well.
    I still wish I was subscribed to replies by default.

  33. @Chemikal says:

    OK the replies can get a little crazy, if you insist on having that many levels.

  34. @Chemikal says:

    Replies at this level are useless, really.

    29th level reply.

  35. @Chemikal says:

    Nothing makes sense any more.

    23rd level reply.

  36. @Chemikal says:

    One reply to rule them all.

    16th level reply.

  37. @Chemikal says:

    Text is getting kinda crazy with the features above the text box.

    14th level reply.

  38. @Chemikal says:

    So maybe this just goes on and on, as I go on and on. (do you like how I quoted PCJUSTINE on this one?)

    12th level reply.

  39. @Chemikal says:

    text is starting to run into one another, right above this text box.
    But this is still sick.

    11th level reply.

  40. @Chemikal says:

    I'm luvin this!

    10th level reply.

  41. @Chemikal says:

    Damn it man.

    9th level reply.

  42. @Chemikal says:

    No way…

    8th level reply.

  43. @Chemikal says:

    Oh yeah, we're going for the gold now…

    6th level reply!

  44. @Chemikal says:

    It seems that I need to enter my e-mail address every time in order to be able to receive notifications of new replies. Yeah, I'm not doing that.

    4th level reply.

  45. Hey everyone. I'm Michael with IntenseDebate. Let me know if you have any questions about your shiny new comment system. I'm happy to help. B)

    • Hs4Mm says:

      Thanks for stopping by (I'm GoForThisWorld on twitter). Some points:

      1) In the upper right, there's a box titled "RECENT COMMENTS". It uses premalinks as generated by WordPress tags; but IntenseDebate displays comments using its own permalink; for example, your comment "Don't kill it!" has the ID link http://www.hotforwords.com/200.....chievous... but the WordPress link is http://www.hotforwords.com/200.....chievous... So now all the links in "RECENT COMMENTS" box are broken.

      2) IntenseDebate doesn't seem to recognize that this site already has a bunch load of subscribers.

      3) While composing a comment, if one scrolls and clicks the "show replies" button on another comment, then the comment entry box disappears permanently along with the partially typed comment.

      • Thanks for your feedback.

        1. We're currently syncing the WordPress account with the new HFW IntenseDebate account. There are a ton of comments to sync (over 158K) so it's taking some time. Once that's all synced up the widgets should sync-up as well.

        Basically after the initial install, every time you post a comment we sync it back to the WordPress comment system and the HFW database. Then the comment will show up in the WordPress widget.

        We do offer a bunch of our own widgets, which are faster since they don't have to sync with the HFW database first. Our widgets are available at http://intensedebate.com/extra.....s . Hope that makes sense!

        2. Currently user accounts aren't imported. This is something that we're working on.

        3. We drop a cookie once you start typing a comment so you don't lose your work. But it doesn't happen instantly, so what you encountered might happen if the cookie isn't set. We'll take a look at this and see if we can speed up the process. Please make sure your web browser preferences are set to accept 3rd party cookies.

    • @Chemikal says:

      Why doesn't this system have a reply limiter?
      Why doesn't it remember my e-mail address?
      Why does it say "replying to anonymous" when replying to someone that commented while connected through twitter?
      I wish we could all create an account that stores our personal info, so that we don't have to input it every time.
      I wish I could be subscribed to replies by default.
      I appreciate that you offered to help, I hope I didn't shock you with all the questions and suggestions. ^_^

      Thanks in advance,
      Chemikal

      • 1. I'm not sure what you mean by "reply limiter" – are you talking about all of the threads being collapsed? If that's what you mean, threaded replies will collapse once there are 100 parent comments on the page. This is done to ensure a fast load time, as well as improve navigation through the comment section. Pagination will also kick-in once there are over 100 comments. At the moment the auto-collapse cannot be disabled, but we're working to improve this since it has been a popular request.

        2. Please make sure your web browser is set to accept 3rd party cookies. You can also create an IntenseDebate account at http://intensedebate.com/signup . There are a ton of perks to creating an account: you'll remain logged in so you won't have to enter in your info every time; you can keep track of all of your comments in your profile (see http://intensedebate.com/peopl.....e/michael ); you can build your reputation score (that little number next to my name – rep. scores are determined by the number of comments I submit and the number of times they're voted up or down); and loads of other features.

        3. Not sure what you mean. I see "Replying to @Chemikal". What web browser are you using?

        4. If you create an IntenseDebate account you will automatically be subscribed to receive email notifications for all comments posted in response to your own. You can also reply to comments via email by responding to those email notifications (you can do that without an IntenseDebate account as well).

        No shock at all! It's what I do. ;-) Let me know if you have other questions.

        • Chemikal says:

          1. By reply limiter I mean actually limiting the levels a reply one may add to a comment.
          I tested this and got to the 30th level of replying to another reply, and everything is displayed wrongly at that level. See: http://www.hotforwords.com/200.....chievous...

          2. I've done that, thank you. I see the advantages now.

          3. I'm using Firefox 3.5, but maybe that only happens if you try to reply to your own comment posted via Twitter.

          Thank you for the answers, Michael. You got +1 from me, hehe :-)

      • Chemikal says:

        Well, I found that I need to make a intensedebate account, I think it works with openID as well.
        The cookie works great, I'm now subscribed to replies by default.
        Can you please give an example of another website of similar size that has successfully implemented this comment system?

    • Hs4Mm says:

      Continuing…

      4) One reason — but not the only reason — for having all comments displayed on a single page is the help search the comments using the browser's search feature. But the page loads with threaded replies closed — so the browser cannot search within threads!

      5) Another reason for having all comments displayed on one page is to minimize the number of clicks (avoid having to click through pages of comments). But if threaded replies load up closed, then one has to manually click to read comments — this is too much of a pain! So now instead of clicking pages, we are clicking "reply threads" — very bad thing!

      • I hear ya. All valid points and great feedback – we agree with you. We're working on this, but it will take some time. Sorry for the inconvenience.

        • Hs4Mm says:

          Thanks for considering the feedback. Another bad side effect of closing threads: the links to comments that are embedded inside a threaded comment block do not work. So the "jump to" links in the "Recent Comments" box that point to comments embedded within replies do not work — even if they use ID's tag (I think the widget being used now is from ID's site).

          Bug?: I subscribed to comments, and used to get email notification. But that has stopped.

    • kunstscheiss says:

      why's my gravatar all blurry?

    • HotForWords says:

      I think I am going to go back to my original comment system and revisit IntenseDebate when it can import my users and things like threaded comments are open by default, etc. I like the system and am looking forward to using it in the future! Is it OK if I kill the import now?

  46. @Chemikal says:

    It says above, as I'm typing this: "Replying to Anonymous"

    2nd level reply.

  47. @Chemikal says:

    It remembers the text you last entered in a reply. In case you delete the reply, and you decide to want to make that reply somewhere else, it will cut and paste for you.

    1st level reply.

  48. @Chemikal says:

    Oh, you can follow individual people's comments, under the form of a stream.
    That's cool. This needs further testing.

  49. Chemikal says:

    As it remembers the first line of the previous comment,(yes, it does that) it also remembers my mail address.
    Spell checker: No writing errors were found, so that works too I guess.

  50. @Chemikal says:

    Twitter comment.
    I wish It would remember my email already. :P

  51. Chemikal says:

    I like the features, the aesthetics and the ways of connection.
    Though I also liked being able to come in here and just start commenting, without having to log in every time. And the "new comments on top" thing also appealed to me. :-)
    Make a poll Marina! Now you can do that easily. :D

  52. Wheelsdude says:

    In the spirit of the Christmas season, I am requesting the word [Krampas]. He is apparently an evil demon and the anti-Santa Claus that they have in Europe.

  53. GreatestPotential says:

    [youtube OlphvlbGMTI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....I&fe... youtube]

    High Tech Fashion – Tech Couture at its Finest

    B) Yeah baby! ~sexy high tech wear for the fashionista inclined~
    ;)

  54. HotForWords says:

    Hey guys… is this new comment system a pain in the neck? Shall I kill it?

  55. äläx. says:

    okay. i fucking hate it.

  56. pedanticKarl says:

    Yeahhh!!!!
    I'm top commenter and I'm still beating Marina in p's :D

  57. pedanticKarl says:

    If athletes get athlete's foot;
    What do astronauts get?

    Answer:
    mistletoe B)

  58. GreatestPotential says:

    Just so you regulars know-

    Thumbing comments will bring unwanted conflict here for many

    I'm used to it over at other sites where tongues have been known to wag and drop rabid spitial in vitrolous condemnation

    However,..

    There are both pro's and con's to rating comments so it's not like it is a complete wash out, it's just sad it had to come to this

    Yet for me I've already begun to bask in the amusement for merely stating this tid bit into comment so let the fun begin

  59. glenn says:

    yo marina! you should do your word origins in english and then teach us how to say the word in russian.

    -glenn

  60. pedanticKarl says:

    Whooo Hooo!!!
    I beat Marina. I've got more than 15p's Hooray!!! LOL

  61. GreatestPotential says:

    +10

  62. GreatestPotential says:

    Question is where did my avatar go
    I signed up for the hotforword's site without any obligation towards becoming a member of anything besides that, so now it's the "let's see how it goes then from here" & avatar question to a TA or whomever since I don't care for inconvienence and really don't care to bother rating comments with thumbs up or thumbs down nor do I desire that I be graded for commentary either.
    Just have to see how things go then.
    Thanks.

    • pedanticKarl says:

      Hey GP,
      Marina is still working on configuring the new commenting system.
      I don't know all of the details as she is megga busy with getting this thing configured.
      My guess is that she may keep the HFW site login and the other logins, such as Twitter, OpenId, etc are auxilliary which will enhance the site. In other words, it will allow others to comment without having an account here. Just guessing at the moment, so stay tuned for the details as Marina tweaks things.

  63. GreatestPotential says:

    Hello,
    I better test this out then :)

  64. äläx. says:

    what the hell? do i have to register with some weird shit again to be able to post with my regular hfw-site name? the fuck is this?

    • Andrew says:

      Just take a drink.

    • äläx. says:

      umm. hello? anyone?

      • pedanticKarl says:

        Helllloooooo aLx.

        I was gonna reply on your multi gender thingie.
        So, on application forms, they used to ask for Sex:
        Of course my answer is several times a day.
        Then, they changed to Gender:
        You mean I can now answer, "fire"?

        • äläx. says:

          yo, karl.

          grammatical gender –> genus.
          biological gender –> sexus.

          they should've kept "sex", i guess. there are those gender study thingies. i'm not sure but "gender" is not synonym to "sex" — it's also got other components, like, social and such.

          hm. they asked for sex?D: did you give it to them?:O

          anyway. i asked this before but apparently no one felt obliged to fucking answer me. so, will i always be a guest if i don't register with intensedebate? that'd be really uncool. i checked usernames there:
          aLx? — already exists.
          alex? — already exists.
          äläx? — only letters a – z and numbers allowed.

          i want my name back.:(
          and, quite frankly, i don't want to have to register with another site to be able to post as a non-guest. that's really fucked up.

          • pedanticKarl says:

            I don't know the answer yet as Marina is feverishly tweaking things.
            My guess is that the old HFW site credentials will stay in place? Just a guess.
            The new credentials for logging in using Twitter, OpenId, etc. is great for people that don't already have an account here. We'll have to stay tuned as Marina gets things tweaked.

            Thanks on that gender/sex thing. That's interesting stuff.

      • demivolt says:

        test for my buddy alax…[youtube BM-CzUvzk6w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....M-CzUvzk6w youtube]<3

  65. leonard says:

    I love this web-site like a friend! m :lol:

  66. sassyrequest says:

    i want to know this certain word the means “realizing or getting the bigger picture”. i read this word in a comment to a complicated anime in crunchyroll.com and searched for it’s meaning but now, I forgot the word itself. It’s a SINGLE word. anyone here knows what this word is?

  67. mrflower says:

    I would like to know the origin of the [ova] in your last name. A lot of women in America have this [ova] at the end of their last name, while their male siblings do not. I am very curious about this phenomenon.

    • aLx says:

      this should answer your question.

      • mrflower says:

        It doesn’t. Actually, I think the phenomenon I’m describing applies to Czech females. In America, the first name often takes a female form of the male first name. In Czech, the family name (last name) gets [ova] added to it. For example, Paulina Porizkova’s father would have a last name of Porizk, as would her brothers. That part I’m pretty sure about. I’m just asking if Hot For Words knows the origin of this custom.

        • aLx says:

          here’s what i had in mind: they just mark the female gender by adding -a.
          like, gorbachev’s wife was born титаренко. after they got married, her last name changed to горбачёва.
          the last name of putin’s wife (and his daughters) is путина.

          so, i don’t know. maybe in czech you add “-ova”, in russian just “-a”?

          • mrflower says:

            Ah, I see your line of thought! So for Marina, this question may have something to do with her family name, be it “Orl” or “Orlov”. And so there may be another facet to this gender effect on the last name, if it it also done with Russian names. Perhaps Polish, too, as their culture and language is much closer to the Czech heritage.

  68. Chemikal says:

    Guys, why do we need exonyms?
    Are we really that incapable, such that we can’t pronounce the names of countries in the same manner as it’s inhabitants?
    Clearly when we go to a country, no one there refers to its name the same way as us. So why confuse people?

    • Chemikal says:

      Side note: Americans and Russians pronounce the letter R very differently, and I understand why. Yet that’s not the only difference I noticed in the pronunciation of this country’s name(Russia vs Rossiya) in the English language.
      But from this slight discrepancy to the difference between Japan and Nippon, Germany and Deutschland, Holland and Netherlands (some people even call it Duchland, oh common!), etc, etc, etc.

    • aLx says:

      you’re talking about nouns.
      let’s see. (grammatical) case is not marked on english nouns (except for some pronouns), their inflection system is very weak.
      the russian inflection system is very strong with six cases.
      in german, there’s four.

      so i guess you’d have to learn how to decline nouns in each and every language.

      it gets worse with adjectives.
      “russian” in russian is, iirc, “русский”.
      but, “i speak russian” is something like “я говорю по-русски”.
      in russian, the basic form differs from the form used in the sentence above which is not the case in english.

      also, english doesn’t have grammatical gender on its nouns, adjectives etc. russian does. they got three genders.
      there are, however, languages with a lot more genders. don’t make me look that shit up, some african languages have like 19 genders or something. i remember this morphology lecture; in the lecturer’s script, there was a side comment that in language so-and-so there’s a gender that contains fire, dangerous things and women. that, he said, is an example of a gender class with elements that don’t necessarily have a semantic connection.
      i disagreed.;)

  69. Dear MARINA;

    what is the meaning and the origin of the word [kazantip]?

  70. you should make videos where you do english word origins and then tell us how to say the word or phrase in russian..or something like that lol

  71. neuroway says:

    Mischievous.. mischievous… What’s next? We gonna have mischievous part trois and godaddy New Year’s Eve party?

    THIS IS PANTS! WE MUST MOVE ON to something more intellectually challenging (and sexy) personally says I personally say!!!

  72. jamnjeff says:

    I’d like to know the meaning of the word [kit and kaboodle]

  73. While i’m at it, i’ll request the expression [to make from scratch] as in “I made ginger and molasses cookies from scratch today”. True story.

  74. I’d like to request [ginger] as in when [ginger] is used to refer to red-heads.

  75. 2utoday says:

    :mrgreen: When I was a teenager,my next door neighbor and I created some home made gunpowder and packed it underneath a tree stump in my back yard. When we set off the gunpowder,it blew the stump out of the ground. We were very proud of ourselves but our mom’s were very angry at us. Needless to say,we never tried that again!!

    • How did you detonate the powder? Let’s have details.

      PS: An apostrophy a plural does not make. (Just a personal pet peeve.)

      • 2utoday says:

        :mrgreen: Since that incident,the two of us have been sworn to secrecy by the Federal Government. They don’t want others to know how we did it. We later tried our hand at launching rockets but I can’t discuss that either for obvious reasons. By the way,I always get a twinkle in my eye when I watch a space shuttle launch on TV. Have a nice day!!

      • pat says:

        My cousin and I did the same thing. Salt Peter (Potassium Nitrate) Sulfur, and a ground up charcoal briquet. We both had tackle boxes to carry are supplies. Different concoctions were tamped into a small container ( preferably not glass). The fuse came from the hobby shop, it was normally used for lighting model rockets, and it was water proof. A book of matches and your ready to go! We blew out the side of my aunt and uncle’s metal shed. Oh yeah, it was really loud!

  76. Hs4Mm says:

    Etymology not of [Throw it against the wall and see what sticks.] and of [Wall of Fame]:

    These statements have their origin based on the last of the several rituals girls interested in joining the Delta Sorority had to go through:

    The last ritual for girls interested in joining the Delta Sorority was that the prospective sorors (Latin for sisters; frater/brother) had to throw their panties against the wall. Those whose panties stuck the longest against the wall or which created the biggest gooey streak as it slowly slid down the wall got be become members. Also, the top candidates got to write their name and statistics at the spot/streaks made by their panties: not just their name and their “size-statistics”, but also numerical measurements that specified the stickiness, wetness, and the duration for which their panties stayed up against the wall.

  77. leoNard says:

    Brownsville Station “smokin in the boys room & barefootin”
    …way back in high school…I got three days suspension[suspended]…I got caught smoking :cry: Fred Lincoln “Link” Wray Jr (May 2, 1929–November 5, 2005) was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer.…Link Wray- Rumble (The Father of FUZZ GUITAR,RAVE UP GUITAR and POWER CHORDS)

    the wholeLady Be Cool Kool cigarette commercial cig would turn into one whole ash

    :twisted:

  78. Hs4Mm says:

    I don’t know anything about this actress Sarah Jessica Parker, but here’s something I just found out and which I love about her:

    It seems she’s always had a mole on her chin. Sometime last year, she had the mole removed. Shortly after that, while at the beach, she was confronted by a woman who accusingly told her that she had gotten rid of her “signature”. What I love is SJP’s immediate reaction to that accusation:

    My mole was my signature? Isn’t my brain my signature?

  79. James says:

    OK, Here is my parodythatt should be out soon

    Wake up in the morning looking really shitty
    (Hey, what up girl?)
    But thats cos i been on crack since 1950
    (Lets go)
    Before I leave, look at my eyes and they are really massive
    Even my teeth are a challenge for sulphuric acid

    I’m taking vodka down my throat throat
    Cocaine up my nose nose
    Selling all my clothes
    Taking speed, doing weed
    high on methamphetamines
    Gonna get so fucked it kills me

    Don’t stop, give us pot
    lets go do 900 shots
    Tonight, im a die
    this is my life
    Tick tock time is up
    cos my heart has given up.

    Don’t stop, give us pot
    lets go do 900 shots
    Tonight, im a die
    this is my life
    Tick tock time is up
    cos my heart has given up.

    Kinda pissed of cos i swallowed some heroin
    think it must have split because i am feeling slow again
    And now, the dudes are lining up cause they seen me stagger
    right into the path of an oncming tractor

    Let’s get off outr face face
    Maybe we will get raped raped
    We wil cry when it’s too late late

    It’s like i only care for me me
    and so do a and e e
    and so do a and e
    a a and e

    Don’t stop, give us pot
    lets go do 900 shots
    Tonight, im a die
    this is my life
    Tick tock time is up
    cos my heart has given up.

    Don’t stop, give us pot
    lets go do 900 shots
    Tonight, im a die
    this is my life
    Tick tock time is up
    cos my heart has given up.

    I go to bed
    I wake up dead
    Infact I think that
    Someone fucked me

    I don’t walk I hobble
    I am brilliant role model
    I look like 60
    but im 14

    You sell me stuff
    I cant get enough
    My heart, it pounds
    I am dirty

    Give me my drugs
    Give me your drugs
    Give me your stuff
    Now, nobody moves until they all look at me

    Don’t stop, give us pot
    lets go do 900 shots
    Tonight, im a die
    this is my life
    Tick tock time is up
    cos my heart has given up.

    Don’t stop, lets get hot
    have sex in a park
    Tonight, I am right
    Cos I drank 1000 pints
    Tick tock time is up
    cos my heart has given up.oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

  80. Hs4Mm says:

    Some say that a person’s soul is revealed by what he seeks for enjoyment. That loud, noisy/un-harmonic, strobing cesspool is an appropriate setting for the gathering of the mischievous, mindless children of Dionysus. It might be good to coin the word “woodstock” to denote such gatherings (the mischief in the original woodstock destroyed private farmland). Glad this lesson does not have the “extras” toward the end — this fact, in the present context, helps distinguish you.

    • neuroway says:

      Oh yeah definitely Hs4Mm. The mischievous, mindless children of Dionysus’ soul is probably revealed by the music they savagely cram down their eustachian tubes. Nothing compared to the children of Odin, of course. I am absolutely positively convinced that you’ll have an eargasm once you listen to this melodic arrangement for all the fine souls around that can’t stand Dionysus. Here here! Have have!

  81. James says:

    OK, I really don’t know what parody to do… Kesha or Bad romance… Her the chrouses from both..

    Am I a woman or am I a man
    You ask me what is in my pants
    (Oh-oh-oh–oh-oooh! )
    Is it a penis
    or is it a minge
    Who knows what is in my pants

    &

    Don’t stop, give us pot
    lets go do some shots
    Tonight, im a die
    this is my life
    Tick tock time is up
    cos my heart has given up.

    Kinda pissed of cos i swallowed some heroin
    think it must have split because i am feeling slow again
    And now, the dudes are lining up cause they seen me stagger
    right into the path of an oncming tractor

  82. James says:

    OK, Maybe it was when me and my friend went to the golf course and rolled up loads of turf.. Maybe it was when me and my friend ate 2 packs of crackers in a shed and when his mum caught us we said mice ate them. Or maybe when my dad was mowing the lawn and I leaned out the window and fired a bb gun so it would fly over his head, instead it hit him right in the ass.

  83. James says:

    I think Marina has abandoned us here you know.

  84. neuroway says:

    I was once caught in a conspiration to take over the galaxy and terminate the solar system, but I could escape by knockouting the peace officers who were trying to send me to a place where I would be interrogated, bullied, brainwashed, intimidated and tortured. I then flushed my master plan in the toilet, popped open a bottle of booze, lightened a very expensive and genuine Cuban cigar and mastermindedly convinced the judge that I was not even 16 and needed my mummy so he couldn’t do anything against me. I could distract his attention from the topic of the conversation by refusing to salute the national flag. He god pissed off and started lecturing me about proper social behaviour. He even try to buy me by offering me a pot de vin of several million dollars. I spat on the money, which impressed him quite a lot. When he finally realized that I was 26 and not 16, I was already waving at him while popping a 250+MPH wheelie on my jet-black superbike in front of the court of justice building (in a 35MPH zone)

    Diantre, I have done more mischievous things than this one for sure, but I just can’t remember them right now. Eh, I’ll post them here when I remember, all right?

    Ciao ciao arrivederci.

    • neuroway says:

      Oh, darn me st00pid. I forgot to say that the judge was under the influence of the 2600Hz frequency during the argumentative negotiation, since I alledgedly was in the possession of a pimped capt’n Crunch whistle, which I blew in his face while he was repetitively and spasmodically knocking on his desk with his golden justice hammer.

  85. Evan Owen says:

    Hey, Google says today is the birthday of L.L. Zamenhof, inventor of the international language [Esperanto]. Zamenhof was hoping that such a language would promote communication and hence peace. :smile:

    Esperando is Spanish for “hoping.” :cool:

  86. sup819 says:

    I would like to request the word [epic]

  87. Marina, you need a jacket with one of these in it. (Just think, we could stalk you from the comfort of our PCs. :shock: )

  88. agua1975 says:

    Hey Marina,

    I am quite in awe that you haven’t touched on two of the most obvious words that come to mind for anyone who’s checked out your sites. Can you tell me out of curiosity and humor the origins of [TITS] AND [PERVERT]? I think your predominantly male audience would get a kick out of it. ;-)

  89. Anthony says:

    I’m curious the origin of [mannequin], those ladies you see in store windows. Sounds French, am I right?

    P.S. My most mischevious thing as a kid was probably poking holes in paper cups at a BBQ so people’s drinks would leak out the bottom!

  90. James says:

    LOL Marina! My most mischievous thing was probably…. Oh there is loads. I really would have to think harda bout it.

  91. treybooshey says:

    hi HotForWords,

    how are you??

    would you be able to find out the origins of the word ‘surreptitiously’ its a really nice word to say as its kinda like a kissing action when you say the word.

    thanx
    Treybooshey
    xoxox

  92. kiddterralv says:

    Request for new word: [ROMANCE]

  93. Capman911 says:

    When we were teens we would stand on the side of the road near an old gas station and steal used tires and roll them out in front of cars that were going to the local drive in. It was a blast at the time watching the cars dodging the tires and the people trying to catch us. Then there was this time, oh well maybe in another video. :lol:

  94. Oh, that’s not right, Marina! :lol: The pretty girl was rewarded for her mischievous deed, totally not right. Remember this if you get a ticket for jay walking. :lol:

  95. chewtoy11 says:

    Request for new word: onomatopoeia

  96. thematrix75 says:

    Hello Marina,again Happy Birthday .Sorry to hear about your jacket :!: The video was great and informative.One Mischievous time me and a few friends where in Middle School at the time,we where waiting for the school bus to come to take us to school in the morning.It was getting late already late for school cold ,it was winter.We got tired of waiting we had taken off running knowing the bus was almost there to pick us up.We skipped school that day.

  97. pat says:

    It was a summer evening. I was at an after graduation party at a friends cottage by a local lake. Lots of beer and mayhem. A buddy and myself decided we should retrieve something I had stashed at my house. We thought the best route of entry was through my bedroom window. We got the screen off, reached in and cranked the window open and started to climb through. The lights snapped on and there we were staring down my dad’s pistol. “What the hell is going on!” I responded “just grabbing a swimming suit”. Well I grabed my suit and what we came for and continued to party the night away. I was ok but my buddy was really shook up! The next day I got the lecture about how close I was to death.

  98. Evan Owen says:

    The most mischievous thing I ever did got written up under the screaming headline, “Plot to Kidnap Prince Charles!” in the tabloid Wales on Sunday about 15 years ago. MI5, Buckingham Palace Security, and the Free Wales Army all made statements about it. :shock:

      • Evan Owen says:

        Hey, come on, James, I may want to go back to Wales some day. :razz:
        But since you asked:

        “PLOT TO KIDNAP CHARLES
        Exclusive by Michael Settle

        FOILED: Informer infiltrated terrorist group which planned to demand Welsh independence as ransom.

        Wales on Sunday
        October 23 1994

        TODAY Wales on Sunday can reveal a secret terrorist plan to kidnap Prince Charles.

        The future King of England was targeted by political extremists who planned to demand Welsh independence as the ransom.

        They decided to strike on the day of the Investiture 25 years ago last July. But their plan was doomed to failure after an informer infiltrated their shadowy group.

        The revelations are made by a Welsh nationalist, who fled when police began to close in on the plotters.

        The 44-year-old native of Caernarfon is now living in Canada, while other fellow conspirators escaped to Ireland and Patagonia.

        READ THE FULL STORY ON PAGE 4″ :shock:

        The story was a plant to create publicity for the Welsh Home Rule movement.

  99. cufan71 says:

    :cry: Homework When I was in first grade, I let my devil-may-care attitude get the better of me! My class was standing in line to go back in from recess. All of a sudden I threw a rock at the garbage can! I don’t why I did it I just did it. Luckily it didn’t hit anyone, but my teacher was :evil: MAD :!: She asked who did that :?: All the kids pointed to :arrow: me :!: Back when I was in school corporal punishment was the norm and my teacher normally used a ping-pong paddle for spanking! She called it the “lolly pop” because it gave LICKS! But this time she borrowed another teacher’s bigger paddle to use on me :!: :cry: I learned to never do anything that stupid again :!:

  100. bsomebody says:

    The first thing that comes to mind was when we TPd the high school. We did a really good job and had the entire court yard simply covered. :cool: Good times… :roll:

  101. muggins says:

    A pipe fitting company I was working for had the process piping and also the plumbing contract to retrofit an elecronics factory in San Jose, CA. Work was progressing normally on the pipe fitting side, but I noticed the plumbers were hauling ass to get the men’s and women’s restrooms finished. The plumbers had just tightened the last nut on the last fixture to be installed when the owner and his entourage arrived and wanted to see the restrooms. This was a factory that was owned by Chinese folks, with mostly Chinese immigrant workers. So, the owner walked into the bathroom, took one look and walked out. He told the plumbers to rip out all the tile. All of the tile, which included the walls and floors. Mystified, the plumbers asked why. He was informed that the tiles had tiny black specks in the design. (They were high end ceramic tiles.) To the Chinese, black specks is serious bad luck. So, the plumbers had to take out of the fixtures they had worked so hard to install, and hire tile installers to demo the specked tiles and install different tiles…no specks.
    I felt this was very humorous since I’m not at all superstitious. I decided to do my part in this superstition thing. So, in the back of the factory, where most of the industrial equipment was, I taped a 2 foot string on the end of a thick black felt pen, and started to swing it around and around as fast as I could. Normally, I would do this to a pen that had dried up, with it’s cap on, to try to force ink to the tip. Now, with the cap off, the ink flew off the pen with tremendous centrifugal force, applying tiny black specks on the floors, walls and ceiling and piping and equipment. Tremendous amounts of Chinese bad luck everywhere.

    • I was in the back office of a customer with my tool kit, where I had stored (for the first time) a Sharpie marker with the tip down to keep it moist. When I pulled off the cap to use it, a big splotch of ink fell on the carpet. Yikes! Luckily I knew that alcohol would dissolve the ink and I always carried a bottle in the kit. After a lot of blotting and rubbing while hoping the cust wouldn’t come back into the office, I got it all cleaned up.

      • muggins says:

        I must have lost a dozen shirts to those felt pens bleeding in my shirt pocket. You have to figure that the worker gets absorbed in what he’s is doing, and forgets to put the cap back on once in a while. The major cost to those pens is the cost of the shirts…. or carpet if the pen is stored tip down. What’s the alternative? An old fashioned grease pen? The leads fall out and are tracked across the floor, or if they manage to make it through the wash cycle in the washing machine, they transfer their color to the clothes in that load. We need NASA to develop a better marking pen.

  102. darlingj says:

    Wait…Wait…WAIT!

    Throwing a book in school – and having the class bully protect her – and cleaning up the broken glass from the damage that made innocent Marina look good…IS THE MOST MISCHIEVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN OUR SWEET TEACHER’S LIFE!!?? :shock:

    I guess you learn something new every day.

    Somehow I suspect another story or two lurks – but what do I know? :???:

  103. icebreaker says:

    Another great lesson.

    I just bought your book at Borders bookstore, and it is a fun book with interesting facts as well as great pictures.

    I would like to request the word [misandry], as I work in an office full of women who examplify the word to the highest degree. :roll:

    That is why it is good to come home from work to a friendly female face (belive me friendly beats pretty “six ways from Sunday”}.

    Keep up the good work

  104. Wow, so my birthday is on the original Mischief Night. Sure explains a lot. As for my most mischievous act, it’s a good tale, but I’m hesitant to relate it until I check the statute of limitations on certain aspects. No one was hurt, ‘tho.

  105. titan1912 says:

    I used to be a first rate liar. I was so good at lying that I could actually get the person I would be talking to, to tell the lie for me. It act is mainly played off of the fact that most people assume, which I greatly discourage. First, you start by saying a statement that is true and then you say the statement up to a certain point. About halfway through the statement you stop and just stare at the person you are talking to. Finally, ince the person you are talking to is prone to assuming things, you know that this person will assume a logical ending to your statement and you simply agree with whatever they say. I have done other mischievous things, this is just one of them.

  106. Of course, I am not going to tell everyone the really mischievous stuff (I’m no fool, you know). But i will tell about the “best” one.

    I was in the USAF, working in NSA at Fort George G. Meade, MD., where each branch of the service (except the Coast Guard) had their own barracks building. These cinder block buildings (which you can still see at 39 06 26.54N/ 76 45 46.97W) were as old as the hills, such that the vinyl floor tiles actually wore through to the concrete and had to be replaced—and this was in 1968! Now the stage is set.

    We got this new squadron commander, a PHD in music, whose job was basically making sure the building didn’t burn down, because he had nothing to do with our jobs at the NSA “Puzzle Palace.” His first action was to post a memo on the bulletin board that started out saying how he wanted to remove all the irritants of barracks life, then many paragraphs of blah, blah, blah, followed by an ending statement that there would be a “white glove” inspection the next Saturday morning (our day off) and he expected all the floors to be stripped and new wax put down. I circled the first and last paragraphs and labelled it “LOGIC!”

    Knowing that this guy had a screw loose, I knew there was no way you could win, so there was no point in spending the whole evening stripping anything. Everyone else stripped the ancient tiles Friday night and put down a coat of wax. The only thing giving them any shine at all greater than sandpaper were the many, many layers of wax. I came in at 10PM when they were putting the mops, buffer, etc. away. I swept out my cube, damp mopped it and buffed it with the buffer that had a bit of wax left on the brush. Time invested: five minutes.

    The next morning, we were “standing tall.” My cube was the first to be inspected, and naturally, the floor gleemed. I passed. Everyone else’s floor was dull, and they had to stay in all Saturday to re-strip the floors. I made myself scarce and no one ever caught on.

    • Captain Jack says:

      Puzzle Palace, lol, I haven’t heard that term in years! The NSA is a whole new ball of wax now days. :lol:

      I used to work for a small floor waxing company. Many times the boss would water down the wax. We felt that was very unethical. Heck, he asked us to do many unethical things. What’s worse, is he was an elder in his church. This bothered me and my partner. So we decided to split off and start our own company. Because we were to wild and crazy guys, we decided to name it “Scumbusters”. It wasn’t such a good name choice for it was discovered from a trademark search that Black & Decker had a cleaning tool called the Scumbuster. We said screw it, we’re keeping the name.

      There were many times we would do a spot mop and a buff. We had a good 4-7 coats of wax down and as long as we didn’t have any contamination when we laid it down the first time ( i.e. lint, dust, hair, or any small dark objects), we would just do that. It looked great! If the wax yellowed or there was a bad spill then we would just strip that layer off.

      That was our idea of working smarter and not harder.

      • wyo550 says:

        This will be a fun way to get Googled:

        A half hour later, at 05:30 am Moscow, NSA’s wideband radio frequency scanning receivers hidden inside the Moscow Embassy’s roof structure intercepted a status test of the Russian President’s Cheget codes originating from inside the Kremlin. The briefcase was assumed to be exercising its usual operational status “handshakes” with the three redundant Russian strategic military networks in a series of frequency-hopping UHF frequencies that the NSA had long-before identified. The NSA code shop in Maryland hadn’t been able to crack the Russian authorization codes but it was known how the Russian Code-Division Multiplexing equipment in the three Chegets algorithmically shaped unified command messages as they hopped from frequency-to-frequency to prevent jamming during these handshakes. The code structure used in the Ghegets was quite distinctive.

        …from Edge of Heaven, First Edition

  107. kristanna says:

    great video Marina! :smile:
    speaking of Christmas, i always wanted to know the meaning of the word candy cane. And I found it recently! :razz: Now i want to share it with you, hope you will find it interesting…
    Many years ago a candy maker wanted to make a candy that would symbolize the true meaning of Christmas-Jesus.
    The hard candy was shaped like a “J” to represent that Jesus is our rock of all ages. The candy was made of white to stand for the pureness of Jesus. The red represents the blood that Jesus shed to save us from our sins.
    So the next time you see a candy cane take a minute to remember the real meaning of Christmas.
    Do you like candies Marina? :smile:

  108. eugensdiet says:

    Your story, Marina, reminded me of what happened to me in third grade. The teacher was writing on the black board and me being bored I was playing with a rubber band, my notebook and a pencil. It only took me a few seconds to launch the pencil which flew and hit the black board over the teachers right shoulder. She jumped around scowling and shouted who did that? ( She was scary looking. Kids would dress up to look like her on Halloween.) My friend Mike Gordon said “Eugen did it.” Guess who wound up wearing the dunce cap? There were more serious consequences. The following September I found myself in the retard class (“class for special children”). I would stay in that class until I moved away from NYC and PS 37. Seven years later my buddy Bob and me are hitching hiking to Jones Beach and were getting a ride from this guy when I related the story to Bob and I made fun of the teacher’s name. The guy hit the brakes and told us to get out and with the meanest face I ever saw he said “That teacher is my mother.” Two bad days? No my whole life has been like that.

  109. pedanticKarl says:

    Excellent video and we get to visit Guy Fawkes again.
    He was first visited in this video.
    http://www.hotforwords.com/200...../hey-guys/

    I loved the part about the pronunciation and will help me to spell it in the future. I think I’ve heard too many people pronounce it incorrectly that as you hinted in the video, it seems that the mispronounced word was going to become legitimate.

    • pedanticKarl says:

      You really want to know what mischievous thing I have done?
      As a five year old kid, I used to hang around with slightly older boys who would would be generous and they would treat me to soda drinks and bubble gum at the corner store.

      I had not started first grade yet, and many of the older boys were going to school. I decided that I needed some bubble gum and I spotted a shiny red flyer type wagon in front of the neighboring apartments. I casually walked over to the red wagon and pulled it half a mile to the local recycler that the boys had been telling me about. They told me that whenever I needed some money, to just find some metal and take it over there.

      Well, I got several bucks for that red wagon and I was able to buy a whole bunch of bubble gum. I thought I was brilliant, until my dad came home that afternoon and he found out about my misdeed from a neighbor who had seen me take the wagon.

      The boys who found out earlier that the red wagon was missing did not believe the neighbor as they thought some older outsider must have taken the wagon, until my dad retrieved the wagon from the recycler. Since everything turned out all right, I sort of became a hero to the older boys and was always treated with respect.

  110. PLEASE MARINA FOR CHRISTMAS I WANT YOU TO DO THE WORD [SOLES]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  111. tonyb says:

    You brought up the subject of HELL NIGHT in Detroit, MI on Haloween. They will torch vacant boarded up bulldings in the inner city. Once when up there on business I saw there still are these boarded up abandoned homes in Detroit left there after the 1965 Riots!! They seemed to have had a giant toxic waste pit bigger than a football field near low income residential houses, too! My recollection from 20 years ago!

  112. leoNard says:

    [paste]…glue, stickyness, cement :oops: Have fun with some “blood-circulation”…Hold on to your [pasties] burlesque enthusiasts..[.whEat]…wonderful job Miss-Orlova-HoTFoRWoRDS…[][][][]c.a.n.d.e.l.b.r.a[][][][] :smile:

  113. heyzeus says:

    i would like to know the origin of the phrase {(voir dire] since it happened to me today

  114. seesixcm6 says:

    Dear Marina,
    I’m sorry someone stole your nice black jacket. They ought to mail it back to you, right away. It gets cold during winter, here. I would mail you my windbreaker style jacket, if you’d like. It will keep you warm, and you’d look beautiful in it, even if it is a man’s jacket, and likely too big for you. Let me know, and I’ll wash it before I mail it to you! (Since I’m the first one to offer you my jacket, you should pick me to mail it to you!)
    In the Army, a mischievous thing I did was to instruct a Colonel to point his microphone at a speaker. The Colonel had complained about “feedback” during a voice check as he practiced before his speech. Well, if you point the mike at a speaker, the mike picks up the slight hissing noise from a swpeaker, amplifies it repeatedly, and develops the loud whistle you hear. Well, the loud, shrill noise showed the Colonel how to prevent feedback by holding the microphone so it won’t pick up sound from the speakers! :razz:
    (I didn’t get another promotion after that!) :shock:
    Seesixcm6

  115. Chemikal says:

    Mispronouncing the word mischievous is mischief enough for me. :razz:
    Thanks for clearing that up.

  116. darlingj says:

    After careful consideration, I must claim my right under the 5th ammendment. ;-)

    There are too many to choose from, and many have not past the statute of limitations… :oops: :twisted: :shock: ;-) :lol:

  117. germi says:

    Thanks for the Video, the last time I broke car windows, crazy. From this Video I didn’t know the 5th of Noverber was holiday, and the Guy Faweks was the bases of the movie vendetta. I’ve taken the time to write down the poem he resists in the movie for you.

    Voila, in view, a humble vadevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stand vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vangarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violatltion of volition.

  118. wyo550 says:

    College Mischievous:
    At the end of my senior spring semester, a broadcast production class I had been elected to head as producer finished shooting a documentary on space industry. We were then told we would not get to edit the project to completion. As producer, I had an obligation to my class that had worked so hard to create our shared vision.

    So, having a key to the store room where the raw tapes were kept, one night I went in and removed the tapes from the dust covers, put the dust covers back on the shelf and “borrowed” the tapes.
    I edited the project at my own expense and replaced the tapes.

    Then the project won the first student Emmy ever awarded.

    Now, “we” had a problem: USC still didn’t know the tapes had been taken and the project edited and awarded the Emmy from ATVAS. We negotiated a revised credit for USC. To this day Broadcast Journalism students at USC think the first student Emmy award went to a class two years after us. Our show aired on Discovery Channel in the US and Japan in 1986.
    ===============================
    Adult Mischievous:
    You screw me in a false bankruptcy and I’ll expose you online and the governor of Tennessee will write and say “thank you, I”m showing your this to my cabinet.”
    http://www.laserradio.com/memp.....his.html
    ==========================
    Computer mischievous:
    One of the word processors we used to write and edit my book took out all the apostophes and inserted weird, random symbolics.
    I’m now on page 111 of 564… doing a paragraph of proofing at a time.

    • leoNard says:

      An honest reason for the UNITED STATES gone broke :lol: …they make capital a God of GReeD and taxes a “Rich-Man’s ” jOke fOr pOOr fOlk…economics are planned disasters and cheap pay like a slut in heat :lol: water washes fashions :lol:

  119. wetsuit5 says:

    HotForWords,

    I thought you said it was a jacket that has chrome hearts on it.
    Ut Oh!! I was almost a baaaahd boy…
    That’s a black short coat.
    Interesting zippers.
    OK search recalibrated.

    My most mischievous thing.
    I stole (borrowed) a couple of helicopters.
    On more than one occasion.

  120. “I’m calling to congratulate you, you’ve won our sweepstakes, you’re our big winner!” Then ask the caller to find the grocery slip with the winning number printed on the bottom of the reciept because if they don’t have the grocery slip with the winning number on it then they can’t claim their $50,000 dollar prize.

  121. smokey36bear says:

    I had a similar experience, but with a nerf foot ball at Kmart. A friend and I were playing catch when the ball was thrown too high and grazed the lights. It knocked the fluorescent light out and it came smashing down. It was a good thing that no one else was in the store at the time.

  122. Dear HotForWords,

    When I was in Jr. High I had some stink bombs, the kind in the glass, the kind that smells like rotten eggs and doesn’t go away and covers a large area with it’s stink. In the lunch room I stepped on one of my own supply underneath the table… the entire lunch room was effected! Everybody left the lunch room not finishing their lunch, all of the halls were full this lunch day. And the vice principal was out looking for the suspect. Luckily all the people a ran with, who knew it was me, were not going to rat me out. That’s about it.

    Peace,
    ThoughtOnFire

  123. leoNard says:

    super…he must have been pretty cool :P NY

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